WHO Guideline on Health Policy and System Support to Optimize Community Health Worker Programmes
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WHO Guideline on Health Policy and System Support to Optimize Community Health Worker Programmes
Excerpt
Addressing health workforce shortage, maldistribution and performance challenges is essential for progress towards all health-related goals, including universal health coverage. Further, as evidenced by the recommendations of the United Nations High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth, there is increasing recognition of the potential of the health sector to create qualified employment opportunities, in particular for women, contributing to the job creation and economic development agenda. The education and deployment of interprofessional primary care teams of health workers should reflect a diverse and sustainable skills mix; in some contexts this may entail harnessing the potential of community health workers (CHWs) as part of broader efforts to strengthen primary health care and the health workforce more generally.
© World Health Organization 2018.
Sections
- Foreword
- Contributors and acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Key messages
- Executive summary
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Rationale
- 3. Target audience
- 4. Objectives and scope of the guideline
- 5. How this guideline was developed
- 6. Results
- 7. Recommendations
- 8. Research priorities and guideline update
- 9. Guideline use
- 10. General implementation considerations
- References
- Annex 1. Search terms to identify CHWs and other relevant community-based health workers
- Annex 2. Service delivery areas on which there is published evidence of CHW effectiveness
- Annex 3. Existing WHO guidelines that identify specific roles and services rendered by CHWs
- Annex 4. List of members of Steering Group, Guideline Development Group and External Review Group
- Annex 5. Selected findings of stakeholder perception survey
- Annex 6. Evidence profiles and evidence-to-decision tables (WHO/HIS/HWF/CHW web annex/18.1)
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